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If you are new to trials click on 'Guide to Trials' tab above to get you started. Or - download the Club Membership form by clicking here click on the 'Links' tab above then choose 'ACU Licence' for the ACU Licence form.

Personalise and print off your own Champs, N&B and Wednesday evening (but not Centre Trial) entry forms It's much easier for you - saves scribbling one out in the rain at the trial. The events are in the 'Events' tab (surprised eh?) and they all start at 11a.m. except evening trials at 18.45 prompt. If you go to the NEWS section you can print off a one page list to keep in your glovebox. Stick another on the fridge door so your missus can't complain she didn't know you had a trial on.

We meet at 8.00 p.m. every 1st Thursday in the month at the Horsforth club, New Road Side, Horsforth, Leeds, LS18 4DR. It's perhaps not as entertaining as an hour with Lady Gaga (3 Brits eh!) but you are welcome all the same.

Route Markings. The main route is flagged red and blue (red on the right) with easier routes having white and yellow deviations (white on the right). So anyone riding the easy course go through ALL the red and blues EXCEPT where there is an alternative white and yellow gate. The Wednesday night trials kinda follow this principle but 4 sections are dual and 4 single, normally;- these are Howard's babies so you're never quite sure what to expect.

All our trials have dual sections - one Easy, one Hard (except the Basic in March which has just one 'Hard' route).
In 2007 we introduced a 50/50 option on Novice and Beginner trials and for 2008 it was extended to the Champs trials as well and subsequently extended the the Presidents and Bob Owen trials and so it remains now. 50/50 riders will ride either the Easy or Hard Route (a notice at the start of each section states which one).
The theory is that where 50/50 riders ride the easy route, it should be one of their easier sections but slightly harder for the Easy course riders; this means only the Hard course riders are doing the hard route on that section so we can afford to toughen that up a bit for them. (Concentrate - we'll be asking questions later)
Where 50/50 ride the hard route it will be one of their harder sections, but will be a bit easier for the Hard course riders; because only the Easy course riders will ride the easy route on that section it can be a bit softer for them. Confused? good! for further confusion click HERE
Although N&B and Champs trials will run to the same 50/50 format, as you would expect all the sections will be a bit easier on the N&B so riders might find themselves riding different courses on the N&B to what they ride in the champs.

We aim for everyone to have an interesting and enjoyable ride.

The Bob Owen in November and the Presidents on May Day Monday will be run to the 50/50 format to give the big boys something to go at on the hard sections; some middle ground for the guys who used to do the hard sections but are getting a bit old for it now and the easy course for everyone else (but they won't be suitable for beginners).
How do we tell if we have set the courses right?
Subjectively - you, the riders will tell us yea or nay.
Objectively, every section should be cleanable by the better riders in each category so theoretically there could be some zero scores but in practice that doesn't happen often. Everyone has a slack dab or takes the odd flag out on the day. What we try to avoid is having any retirements at the other end of the table.
Achieving this on all the routes in all the trials with such a wide spread of rider ability is sometimes a bit tricky what with overnight rain, frost and never quite knowing how the sections will hold up after they have been ridden often well over 400 times (work it out).

COMPLAINTS PROCEDURE For all the theory of how to get the severity of sections right we suffer from the failings of being human so the only thing that is guaranteed is that it won't work out exactly as planned. If we produce a bummer that ends up like a game of dominoes (all 5's and 3's for our younger members who probably don't have a dominoes game on their Nintendo DS) please feel free to let us know. The cost of each complaint is one pint of the appropriate currency in the local hostelry. Inadmissable complaints include:- there are too many rocks at Deer Park; The grass is too slippy at Greenhow (and don't put that bloody tank in again); why wasn't there any water in Dry Gill; do you always have to put sections over tree roots at Swaine woods; why do you always put that same nadgery one in at Stump Cross that always takes points; can't you keep the sun out of my eyes on the rocks at Tong etc etc...

Going Going Gone

RESULTS ON THE WEBSITE - All being well results should be up on the evening of the trial. Exceptions are maybe Wednesday night trials or when Martin is on his jolly's but there hopefully will be a notice when signing on if that's the case (if we remember) so you can write an envelope out and get your results hand written in quill pen on parchment. (We will still try and get them on the website anyway - there just might be a delay).

If you are new to trials click on 'Guide to Trials' to get you started.

Save time at the club trials, avoid scribbling your entry on a soggy form with a broken pencil. Download a blank entry form Here and personalise it from the comfort of your keyboard. Print a load off with your name, address, bike details etc and just scribble in the missing bits (date and venue) at the trial. It'll save you a lot of time at the event trying to find a pen that works in pouring rain. (And we might even be able to read them!)

If you don't know where all our venues are check out our 'Locations' section which now even has a high tech route map that directs you from your home to the venue. Just a word of warning. Although it starts and ends at the right place, sometimes the route to get there can be quite bizarre! Must be the picturesque way.